Written by Charles Dickens
The Magic Fish-Bone
by Charles DickensCharles Dickens has wrote very few fairy stories and The Magic Fish-bone is one of them. A good nature fairy godmother presents the magic fish-bone to good nature and simple princess Alicia. While the magic fish-bone can fulfill any wish of the Princess provided the wish comes at the right time. And as usual with any fairy tales, this story too con..
Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
by Charles DickensDickens non-fiction work Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People resembles the young Dickens' views on the then Victorian Society. His 56 pieces of sketches has been largely divided into four sections as Our Parish, Scenes, Characters and Tales. While the Tales contains fictional stories rest of the sections are n..
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
by Charles DickensA Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former bu..
The Letters of Charles Dickens
by Charles DickensThe letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day before he died. They have been described as "invariably idiosyncratic, exuberant, vivid, and amusing?widely recognized as a significant body of work in themselves, part of the Dickens canon". They..
The Personal History of David Copperfield
by Charles DickensI do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret?pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in..
Mudfog and Other Sketches
by Charles DickensMudfog is a pleasant town?a remarkably pleasant town?situated in a charming hollow by the side of a river, from which river, Mudfog derives an agreeable scent of pitch, tar, coals, and rope-yarn, a roving population in oilskin hats, a pretty steady influx of drunken bargemen, and a great many other maritime advantages. There is a good deal of wate..
Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read
by Charles DickensCharles Dickens was one of the greatest among the many story-writers of "the Victorian age;" that is, the middle and latter part of the Nineteenth Century, when Victoria was Queen of Great Britain. Perhaps he was the greatest of them all for now, a generation after he passed away, more people read the stories of Dickens than those by any other auth..
Speeches - Literary and Social
by Charles DickensCharles Dickens was born at Landport, Portsmouth, on February 7, 1812. At that time his father, Mr. John Dickens, held an office in the Navy Pay Department, the duties of which obliged him to reside alternately at the principal naval stations of England. But on the conclusion of peace in 1815 a considerable reduction was made by Government in thi..